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  2. Lascaux - Wikipedia

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    Modern entrance to the Lascaux cave. On 12 September 1940, the entrance to the Lascaux Cave was discovered on the La Rochefoucauld-Montbel lands by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, investigated a hole left by an uprooted tree (Ravidat would embellish the story in later retellings, saying Robot had fallen into the cave.) [8] [9] Ravidat returned to the scene with three friends ...

  3. Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley

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    Font-de-Gaume, in Les Eyzies, discovered in 1901: the first time prehistoric paintings were discovered in the region. The paintings of animals (mainly bison and horses, more than 200 in total) date to the Magdalenian and are about 17,000 years old. Font-de-Gaume is the only cave with polychrome prehistoric paintings still open to the public. [3]

  4. The Vézère valley was dubbed the "Valley of Mankind" from the end of the nineteenth century following the numerous discoveries of exceptional prehistoric sites, including the Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter, the cave of Font-de-Gaume, and the Combarelles caves in Les Eyzies. It also the location of the Lascaux cave in Montignac.

  5. ’The First Art School in History,’ a Prehistoric Cave You Can ...

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    “Master Sapiens” is a dive into the Lascaux Cave, considered by experts to be the first art school in history. The series is available as one 52′ documentary or two 45′ episodes, produced ...

  6. Montignac-Lascaux - Wikipedia

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    The main attraction of the region is the Lascaux Cave, a complex of caves containing Upper Paleolithic painted art discovered in 1940 and estimated to be 17,300 years old. The cave was put on show in 1948, but it was found that the paintings were being damaged by the carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors, and in 1963, the cave was closed to the ...

  7. Rock art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Rock art paintings of aurochs at the Upper Palaeolithic cave site of Lascaux in southwestern France. Rock art has been produced in Europe since the Upper Palaeolithic period through to recent centuries. It is found in all of the major regions of the continent. [1] One of the most famous examples of parietal art is the Grotte Chauvet in France ...

  8. Le Regourdou - Wikipedia

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    Le Regourdou [1] (or Le Régourdou) [2] is an archaeological site in the Dordogne department, France, on top of a hill just 800 m (2,600 ft) from the famous cave complex of Lascaux. At this now collapsed 35 m (115 ft) deep ancient karst cavity remarkably well preserved Neanderthal fossils were recovered, that might be skeletal remains of ...

  9. Castel Merle - Wikipedia

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    Castel Merle (also known as Castel-Merle or Castelmerle) is a complex of ten prehistoric rock shelters (French: abris) in Sergeac, in the Dordogne department of France. It is close to the Lascaux rock art caves and is situated in the region which forms the Unesco World Heritage site Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley ...

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